“I knew they were something,” Christina Kean says about the three Japanese woodblock prints she came across about a year ago in a thrift store. “I found them in a loose bin of art,” she ...

Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong love of the art form had its origins ... and the third was a Japanese woodblock print. "I was very surprised," Sculley ...

Joichi Hoshi was a Japanese ... woodblock process. Born in 1913 in Niigata, Japan, Hoshi began his artistic career after working as an elementary school teacher in Taiwan for several years. He later ...

And according to those who knew and worked with him, this aesthetic sense developed early and was influenced heavily by Japanese art — especially the modern woodblock prints, or shin-hanga ...

This time, we want you to look at a mid-19th-century print by Utagawa Hiroshige of Japan: “Great Bridge: Sudden Rain at Atake ...

The exhibition features 84 artworks and focuses on the “popularisation” of imaginary monsters from the country's folklore.

"The Great Wave" is only placed on display for three months at a time every four years, the Art Institute said. This is because Japanese woodblock prints are affected by light exposure, which can ...

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in art. A design, usually a picture or words ... (after Hiroshige)' in 1887 to show what he admired in Japanese woodblock prints. In prehistoric times, humans made a type of print by using ...

Last week, two prints of Hokusai’s The Great Wave fetched over $800,000 each at auction in New York. Both Christie’s and Bonhams sold a print of the iconic ukiyo-e seascape in sales that coincided ...

Simply type in whatever comes to mind and the program will churn out a woodblock ... s Art Research Center. Clanuwat initially connected with Akama while researching. Clanuwat arrived in Japan ...